Apex Legends launched its 12th season this week, adding new hero Mad Maggie, a new destroyed Olympus map, and a 9v9 limited-time mode Control.
It may be that the popularity of the new season is relatively high, and the number of Steam players of Apex Legends has reached a record high. According to SteamDB, Apex Legends peaked online 22 hours ago, with nearly 400,000 players (392,998).
🎉 ALL TIME RECORD for Apex Legends on Steam!
Currently 380,503 players online, old record was 330,000 when arenas were released.
And it’s not even peak time yet! pic.twitter.com/mf1WRnR8fX
— Apex Legends Status (@_ApexStatus) February 9, 2022
In addition to the new content, the increase in the number of players may also be related to the third-anniversary celebration. Respawn Entertainment is releasing character and theme packs every week until March 1. This week is Octane, next week is Wattson (2.15) and Valkyrie is available from February 22 to March 1.
Recently, the rating agencies in Taiwan, North America and Europe have completed the next-generation version ratings, which means that the native Xbox Series X/S and PS5 versions of Apex Legends will be launched soon.